Hair-waver



H. E. PRATT.

HAIR WAVER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2, I916- RENEWED MAY 28.1921- Patented Dec. 13, 1921.

UNITEDYSTATESQPATENT QFFICE.

e ema E. PRATT, or person, MICHIGAN.

HAIR-WAYER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patentgd Dec, 13, 1921 Application filed February 2, 1916, Serial No. 75,743. Renewed May 28, 1921. Serial No. 473,317.

ToaZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HULDAH E. PRATT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of l Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ,Hair- /Vavers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hair wavers and has for its object to provide a hair -waver constructed entirely .of heavy wire 'which may be applied tothe hair after the same has been dressed to cause the hair to be in ridges and valleys which inthemselves are waved, thus presenting a double waved effect giving an even, uniform and beautiful coiffure.

With the ordinary crimping tongs and wavers in present use the hair is first. crimped or curled and afterwards combed and dressed. This usually necessitates the help of a hair dresser, as it is very difficult to arrange the strands uniformly and to cause the waves to fall regularly. I provide my hair waver with tines which are curved to conform to the contour of the head, which waver may hence be successively applied by oneself to various portions of the hair after the same has been dressed to give it the desired effect. I further position the tines in spaced relation to each other so that the strands of hair are not broken between them or caused to become scorched by undue pres sure against the warm tines. The sets of. tines when the waver is closed are further positioned in spaced and parallel relation to each other. The depth of the waves is hence dependent upon the space between the sets of tines and not upon the size of the tines, so that by holding the waver more or less open the depth of the waves-may be varied.

The full objects and advantages of my invention will appear'in connection with the detaileddescription thereof and are particularly pointed out inthe claim.

In the drawings, illustrating the application of my invention in one form,

Figure 1 is a view showing the application of my invention. Fig. 2 is a topview of my improved hair waver. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same when in closed position. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 of the hair waver in open position,

Myimproved form of hair waver, as best shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, comprises two members 10 and 11 hinged together. These members are formed of continuous strips of wire which are looped at one end andjoined V tened, the ends thereof being undulated at 16 and 17 to form the tines of this'member-of the waver. Member 11 is formed similarly to member 10, being looped at 18 and having a bent portion 19 which is thereafter brought down parallel to the remainder ofthe member.- The two ends'of this member are flattened at 20 somewhat closer to the loop handle 18 than the portions 15 of member 10, the

extreme ends 21 and 22 of this member being also undulated to form two of the tines thereof. An additional tine 23, undulated to correspond to the heretofore-mentioned tines, is flattened at one end and riveted to the flattened portions 20 of member 11 by rivets 24 and 25 passing through all three of said flattened portions. This tine is positioned between the tines 21 and 22 of member 11 and is bumped up at 26 in a position adjacent to the attachment with said member. The flattened portions 15 offmember 10 are spaced to receive the hump 26 0f tine 23 and are pivoted thereto by a rivet 27 The extreme end 28 of tine. 23,as best shown in Fig. 3, protrudes beyond member 11 to form a stop against which member 10 may act when the waver is in its extreme closed position It can be seen from Fig. 2 that the undulations or waves in the tines come so that the spaces between the same are substantially equal.

In using the device the same is heated in the customary manner. In applying the sameto the hair it is opened, as shown in Fig. 4, the tines 16 and 17 of which having" curved in the arc of a circle as clearly shown in Fig. 3. It will hence be comprehended that the waver may easily be used by oneself to wave the hair at the rear of the head as well as at the front, and that the waver may be successively placed on different portions of the hair to uniformly and evenly wave cannot get tangled or caught.

any desired portions of the same. As the hair is caused to roll over and under the various tines of the waver the distance between the sets of tines, or the members 10 and 11, will Vary the depth of the wave. By holding the handles 12 and 18 a short distance apart the sets of tines may be brought closer together and the waves made less pronounced. This has the efiect of producing different effects in the appearance of the coiilure.

The advantages of my invention are manifest. When the device is closed the members are in spaced relation to each other, so that the hair can in no way become cracked or broken. This is especially true at the hinge, where, as it can be seen from Fig. 4, the hair When the hair reaches the vertex of the tines as formed in that figure the same is remote from the hinge, and as the device is closed the portion 26 of the hinge is brought into effect and serves to prevent the hair from further entering the joint after the device has been closed. The device can be made quite inexpensively and henceits use and application may be made unlimited.

I claim: 7

A hair waver comprising two handles, two sets of tines attached respectively to said handles, the tines of the respective sets in alternation being spacedtransversely from each other, all of the tines having transverse undulations and being curved to conform substantially to the contour of the head of a person and means for pivoting said handles to each other in such manner that the tines of one set will pass from a position above the other. set to a position below the same when said handles are operated from open to closed position. 7

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HULDAH in. PRATT. WVitnesses:

F. A. WHITELEY, H. A. BOWMAN. 

